What is "growing" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does growing mean in English? Meaning of growing definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "growing" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "growing": (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

Noun

  • Meaning: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
  • Example: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
  • Synonyms: development growing growth maturation ontogenesis ontogeny
  • Hyponyms: amelogenesis angiogenesis anthesis apposition auxesis blossoming caenogenesis cainogenesis cenogenesis cohesion cultivation culture cytogenesis cytogeny dentition efflorescence florescence flowering foliation fructification gametogenesis germination habit inflorescence infructescence intussusception juvenescence kainogenesis kenogenesis leafing life cycle masculinisation masculinization morphogenesis myelinisation myelinization neurogenesis odontiasis palingenesis proliferation psychogenesis psychomotor development psychosexual development recapitulation rooting sprouting suppression teething teratogenesis vegetation virilisation virilization
  • Hypernyms: biological process organic process
  • Part Holonyms: gastrulation
  • Antonyms: nondevelopment
  • Meaning of "growing": relating to or suitable for growth

    Adjective

  • Meaning: relating to or suitable for growth
  • Example: the growing season for corn good growing weather
  • Synonyms: growing
  • Meaning of "growing": (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

    Noun

  • Meaning: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
  • Synonyms: growing
  • Hyponyms: epitaxy
  • Hypernyms: production
  • Adjective: Present participle of grow.
  • Synonyms:

    spreading, thriving, viable, flourishing, maturing, budding, animate, living, swelling, crescent, burgeoning, developing, expanding, sprouting, amplifying, stretching, germinating, waxing, dilating, fructifying, mushrooming, enlarging, pullulating, augmenting, crescive,

    Antonyms:

    failing, dying, shrinking, lessening, languishing, dead, withering,

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